Stanley Milgram’s (1963, 1965, 1974) obedience experiments are amongst the most influential and controversial studies in the social sciences (Miller, 2016). Scholars in highly diverse fields have utilised them, attempting to shed light on apparent flaws in human nature. Recent research has noted the importance of rhetorical and discursive elements present throughout the experiments, with participants negotiating with the experimenter throughout. The ramifications of these observations are potentially significant, and many more experimental conditions have not yet been subjected to secondary analysis. My PhD research aims to analyse multiple unexplored conditions from Milgram’s obedience experiments that focus on role variations.